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the fbi had somehow, through a pipe, sneaked a camera in there. so they were watching what was going on this whole time. they thought the guy started to become erratic. he took out a gun and the fbi went in yesterday afternoon. they threw a couple of flash bombs. the man was killed. we don't know exactly how but the kid was rescued and is safe. >> man, that's great news. >> great news. >> and also, front page of the "new york times," the u.s. is going to sue s&p for the ratings on these loans? what's going on there? can americans get money from that? >> it's unclear. it sounds as if the u.s. does win, is successful, there would likely be some compensation or some monetary award. >> so explain this really quickly. so if they are suing s&p for giving high ratings, for high marks to these companies that were on shaky ground, to say the least. >> they are likely going to sue s&p because s&p rated certain securities and certain packages of things that these financial firms have. gave them high ratings which -- >> so gave the firms actual instruments. t
the fbi had somehow, through a pipe, sneaked a camera in there. so they were watching what was going on this whole time. they thought the guy started to become erratic. he took out a gun and the fbi went in yesterday afternoon. they threw a couple of flash bombs. the man was killed. we don't know exactly how but the kid was rescued and is safe. >> man, that's great news. >> great news. >> and also, front page of the "new york times," the u.s. is going to sue s&p...
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and surprisingly, he didn't talk about prostitutes or flights or fbi raids. he talked about transportation and sandy aid, not exactly what people were curious about. and a big pack of reporters followed him out. he didn't answer any questions there. by the way, also speaking at that dinner, governor chris christie who brought down the house by saying -- starting out his speech by saying, "washington, d.c., my kind of town. i love it here." >> mike, there's also a report in "the miami herald" that senator menendez did use his influence to steer business toward this doctor in the dominican republic. the part about the prostitutes getting a lot of attention. is there any sub stan shags for that? >> this started, willie, on conservative websites during his re-election campaign. senator menendez vigorously denied it. but as we're seeing with this story that popped up today, very close connections with this donor. and just writing a check to take care of some flights that happened back in 2010. and you wrote the check in january when these stories have been around
and surprisingly, he didn't talk about prostitutes or flights or fbi raids. he talked about transportation and sandy aid, not exactly what people were curious about. and a big pack of reporters followed him out. he didn't answer any questions there. by the way, also speaking at that dinner, governor chris christie who brought down the house by saying -- starting out his speech by saying, "washington, d.c., my kind of town. i love it here." >> mike, there's also a report in...
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intercede on two occasions for his friend, florida doctor salomon melgan whose offices were raided by the fbi. occasion officials found he overbilled medicare by almost $9 million and ordered him to repay. twice menendez contacted officials to say they were unfairly penalizing melgan who is a campaign donor. menendez has come under scrutiny. he later repaid $58,000 for trips. >>> "usa today," walt disney has cleared the way for george lucas to sell his $2 billion stake in the company. that would allow the legendary filmmaker to sell any of his 37 million shares of stock if he chooses. disney bought his vaunted production house lucasfilm in december. lucas says he will donate most of the proceeds from that sale to education. >>> time now for "politico." >> let's check in with jim vandehei, executive editor down at "politico" for a look at the "playbook." jim, what's going on? >> good. how you doing? >> doing all right. we've got your behind-the-curtain report this morning. you're talking about the separation between the republican party, fox news, they've shed now dick morris to go along with
intercede on two occasions for his friend, florida doctor salomon melgan whose offices were raided by the fbi. occasion officials found he overbilled medicare by almost $9 million and ordered him to repay. twice menendez contacted officials to say they were unfairly penalizing melgan who is a campaign donor. menendez has come under scrutiny. he later repaid $58,000 for trips. >>> "usa today," walt disney has cleared the way for george lucas to sell his $2 billion stake in the...
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i went down to see the fbi about something else. they said, you ought to take a look at terrorism. we just blithely kept going and then it blew up in our face. this is an opportunity, it seems to me, to take the immigration example of people in the house and in the senate to cross party lines and say, let's begin by doing something about medicare. we know -- we all know we have to do something about that. let's begin by doing something about tax reform. they have moved on immigration, which is an encouraging sign, but it's less than the sum of the parts at this moment in terms of how they want to take a kind of whole approach to what we're going to have to do. and there's going to have to be some people from the ground up in the house and the senate who are going to seize this and say, i don't want this on my record. i'm serving in congress. i'm serving in the senate. and when i go out of here, historians are going to look back and say that we completely failed our responsibility. shifted the burden to the young people. and then went home. i mean, congress has not improved its stan
i went down to see the fbi about something else. they said, you ought to take a look at terrorism. we just blithely kept going and then it blew up in our face. this is an opportunity, it seems to me, to take the immigration example of people in the house and in the senate to cross party lines and say, let's begin by doing something about medicare. we know -- we all know we have to do something about that. let's begin by doing something about tax reform. they have moved on immigration, which is...
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the fbi was investigating this when i was investigating it, and i was talking to some of my sources about what the feds were telling them and the feds were planning to have a raid. they were going to go into the sea org compound, open up the doors of this thing called the hole, where executives have been held for years on end, and say, you're free, and the former scientologists said if you did that, they would tell you it's sunshine and sea shells, we're here for our own good. >> you talked about the celebrity scientologist. you started with paul hagus, the seeds fan with you reporting a piece about him. >> right. >> tell that story about how paul hagis turned from the church and became not an informant but the principal of character that led to you the journey. >> paul hag sis a two-time award winner, writer director and only one of the celebrity scientologists that ever publicly walked away, and the reason he did that was because of the anti-gay marriage proposition in california. paul has two gay daughters so when he found out they signed on that, he said you withdraw, you can't suppor
the fbi was investigating this when i was investigating it, and i was talking to some of my sources about what the feds were telling them and the feds were planning to have a raid. they were going to go into the sea org compound, open up the doors of this thing called the hole, where executives have been held for years on end, and say, you're free, and the former scientologists said if you did that, they would tell you it's sunshine and sea shells, we're here for our own good. >> you...